Islington U3A produces a newsletter three to
four times a year. All our previous newsletters
are archived below, so you can go back and see
what was happening at that time. Just click on
the one you want to look at:

Islington U3A is still quite new: it began in October 2013
in response to demand for a local U3A. Now over 5 years
old, we have over 650 members, 65 interest
groups and an exciting future programme — see what's
on

Our programme of monthly meetings has attracted excellent
speakers from across the spectrum, and our summer parties
and quiz nights have been enjoyed by many members. The
page is organised by iU3A year (October to September) with
more recent years first.

2017-18
This was our fifth year. Our membership continues to grow.
We started 'Outings' during this year. The concept is to
offer a trip, an iutung, to places generally outside of
London to all the membership. An Outings Coordinator role
was developed and this lead to several Outings being held
during this year. There were quite a few changes on the
Executive Coommittee (EC) at the end of this year with
several founding members leaving the EC. However all
positions were filled with new members, bringing new blood
to the EC. The chairs report for this year can be read here.2016-17This was
our fourth year. Our membership peaked at 600 during the
year. The chairs report for this year can be read here.

2015-16Our third year and another successful year. We
continued to attract excellent speakers for our monthly
meetings programme which drew large audiences. The
number and types of groups have grown to support the
interests of the growing membership. Their variety is only
possible because of the members who give their time to
coordinate them. There are many other members who
volunteer to support the general organisation of iU3A and
the delivery of our social events. We continue to enjoy
ourselves and members also contribute to various Shared
Learning projects and volunteer as subjects for academic
research studies and to help local charities. In June we
organised several events to raise money for Islington
Giving, which funds projects to ameliorate the impact of
poverty and isolation in Islington. Our donations this
year totalled over £2000.The Chair's report as presented at the AGM is here.

2014-15Our
second year saw continued growth in membership, and the
introduction of new events such as the January Quiz Night.
We also introduced regular coffee mornings for members to
meet locally. Our support for our adopted charity,
Islington Giving, began to progress beyond just an
energetic few walking the borough boundary with more
members becoming involved in other ways, for example
making craft items for sale.

Our programme of monthly meetings continued with excellent
speakers and increasing audiences. We are really very
fortunate in the speakers we are able to attract and their
talks are well worth a revisit — see here

Our year is recorded briefly in pictures here
and our Chair's report as presented at the 2015 AGM is here

2013-14Islington
U3A got off to a great start with queues in the street to
attend our Inaugural Meeting. Our monthly meetings also
got off to a great start with the well-known commentator
David Aaronovich treating us to an entertaining preview of
the parties' positioning for the then forthcoming general
election. Subsequent meetings ranged widely, from how the
'two Islingtons' of wealth and poverty can be brought
together, through the science of laughter, to how Valdimir
Putin sought to exploit Angela Merkel's fear of dogs. You
can see notes and pictures from all the meetings here

Other activities included our first boundary walk for
Islington Giving, our first visit to the Park Theatre and
our first birthday, which Clive Anderson helped us to
celebrate. The year in pictures is here
and the Chair's AGM report is here